boned salmon, cured by marinating in sugar, salt, pepper, and other spices, esp. dill.
Origin: 1960–65; < Sw gravlax, Norw gravlaks, equiv. to grav- (cf. Sw grava, Norw grave to dig, bury) + lax, laks salmon; see lox1; the salmon was orig. cured by burying it
[grahv-lahks] 
